Murphy’s Law

Someone stuck up a notice (more like a joke, I guess) on the staff room notice board about Murphy’s Law and today, I read it. Made a large smile stretch across my face (almost hurt as I haven’t really smiled much recently!).

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

You will always find something in the last place you look.

No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you’ve bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.

The other line always moves faster.

In order to get a loan, you must first prove you don’t need it.

Anything you try to fix will take longer and cost you more than you thought.

If it jams – force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

When a broken appliance is demonstrated for the repairman, it will work perfectly.

Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Murphy’s golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules.

In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.

Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.

I also found this page which is pretty interesting: Murphy’s Law (and other peoples laws)

Funny how most of those (if not all) are true!

Tags: thoughts

Work

I’m sorry I’ve not been the most religious of bloggers recently but I haven’t forgotten about the blog at all. Well I’ve been having a bit of a rocky time with personal conflicts within myself, ill-health, work and home life etc. I will maybe go into stuff as I type up entries because if I write up everything in one go, this will turn into a really long entry. I’ll start with a bit about work.

Well, in a duration of 3 – 4 days, two people died. Totally unrelated and both deaths upset me. One of the people who died was a huge shock because I just did not expect it to happen. Out of everyone, I didn’t think expect to turn up to work on Friday to be told “Mrs So-and-so passed away this morning”. The other death was a bit unexpected, I mean, she was reaching a good age but the last time I saw her before she went into hospital she looked totally fine, that weekend she collapsed and was taken to hospital then within a week, she dies. A lonely lady, from what I understood, from the family perspective, anyway. Not many visitors etc but of course, when the family heard about her being on her deathbed they were on the phone and down the hospital, visited the flat after she passed away to take her TV etc. Very well liked within the complex, though, and she is missed. That means, 2 soon-to-be empty flats, there’s another 2 empty flats (both moved out) that makes it 4 flats. 2 new people have moved into the empty flats and they are both nice, first impressions, anyway. From what I’ve heard there’s another man due to move in to one of the flats. Low on men, women outnumber the men by a landslide – both staff AND tenants. I think there’s, like, 6 men, and 1 male member of staff.

It’s like a family, really, everyone gets on well with each other, staff and the tenants. What am I? I guess I’d call myself a somewhat distant cousin. I do talk etc but am finding it very hard. Not the job so much as the socialising. The job itself can be a bit difficult at times but it’s the friendship making and socialising I’m finding is a bit of a rough course. Easier than what it was when I started the job but am still finding it difficult. People seem to like me but I dunno… I’ve been really paranoid. It’s a bit like ‘The Sims’. Friendships need to be built. You can’t just walk into a building and expect everyone to love and be friends with you. On ‘The Sims’, relationships are shown by points. The more you talk to someone and get to know them the more points you get, and you become a friend of someone when you reach 50 points, or something. I think I’m on 15 or something. Getting there. Maybe.

Yeah work is a bit hectic atm and have also been loaded with paperwork. Le sigh.

Tags: jobs/careers, life, people